2020-04-08 Hypha Worker Co-op: Standup and OKR presentations

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Time: 5-6:00pm ET
Location: https://jitsi.hypha.coop/hyphacoop
Attending: dc, yj, el, bl, uv, gi
Cultivator: dc
Notetaker: yj yj, el, bl, dc, pc, uv, gi

Agenda

• Standup (3 min/person)
  1. What did you work on this past week?
  2. What do you plan to work on this coming week?
  3. What are your blockers?

Helpful link: https://github.com/issues?q=org:hyphacoop+sort:updated-desc+involves:YOU

Standup Notes

• Person: uv
  • last: qm, covid19, civic tech, mozilla grant
  • next: more qm, covid19, civic tech
  • blockers: none - need more time, busy few weeks - take some time ahead
• Person: bl
  • last: mozilla grant, infra + internal stuff, sales related things bus dev
  • next: looking at revenue/financial goals
    • ops stuff that become more time sensative+important due to covid
    • hear back on grant for mozilla
  • blockers: seperating infra and grant stuff, more unblocked (website + branding helped), but feels overcommitted on various projects, step back a bit
• Person: gi
  • last: website relaunched, a lot of stuff on that (h/t elon webserver), travis ci migration
  • next: feedback re contact info on site, long term thinking about project and maybe a blog the “substack” ?
  • blockers: time, being vmware employee?
• Person: yj
  • last: calming down at other work, working on finance and infra tasks, getting caught up, helping with moz grant
  • next: dig into ansible, both prep for (maybe) moz grant, prep for internal stuff, tie of finance stuff
  • blockers: time and energy, passive stress in air that drains energy and willpower
• Person: el
  • last: launch the website w/ gi, grant document, ansible
  • next: more infra and ansible stuff
  • blockers: none \o/
• Person: dc
  • last: reaserch around covid19, ops stuff, logistical stuff and cleanup, cultivating prep, social media stuff, qm, mozilla grant, occupation health and safty, okrs
  • next: close of some things, covid, health and safety, branding, mutual aid work civit tech + covid19, more around StART
  • blockers: draining working on calls, mindful of being a weird time but thankful its not wearing down as it has in the past!

Discussions

StART

• project updates and restarting

COVID-19 internal response

• Current plan
  • Resource for members re COVD19
    • Work from home
    • Dont meet with clients
    • No PPE
    • Take care of health (mental, etc)
    • Stay communicative
    • Employees can refuse unsafe work “this feels unsafe i don’t want to do this”
    • Hypha will NOT get in the way of your health
    • Contractor ability if some one test +
    • We can shut down temporarily if needed
    • We can offer ROE
• yj: pretty well documented where things reside, credentials all in passbolt
  • couple points that don’t pass “bus scenario”, e.g. bbb and jitsi, but those aren’t critical
  • email & website is with el, possible risk there
  • tomesh chat on justin’s server
• bl: finance, bl and yj both know everything about finance but if we are both out it may be a problem
  • things are well documented though
  • #todo: bl share transferwise personal credentials with yj

COVID-19 external response

• uv: resource on our site
  • how to support mutual aid groups
  • found no existing resource
  • Common Knowledge out of UK that match digital technologists with mutual aid groups
    • simple techology like spreadsheets, websites, google forms
  • in looking to create a similar resource - possibly Civictech
    • will engage Curtis @ civictech
    • how much can hypha contribute
    • matchmaking between technologists and mutual aid groups
  • possible blocker: capacity

Financial projections

• https://link.hypha.coop/projection
  • collected ~14.5k so far
  • previously expected $40-45k cumulative revenue by june, revenue target $50k in biz plan
  • lost DWeb Camp project
  • reduction in C4C hours
  • reduction of work in aether
  • delay in infrastructure project
  • now around $23k (impact of $15-18k from COVID-19)
  • how much money do we have?
    • if by may we have 2k in the bank we will be able to pay end of fiscal year costs with ~$850 left in bank (this does not include paying back member loans)
• concerns?
  • uv, dc: can change clip or do progressive clip
  • bl: concerned about doing the work of changing / progressive clip
• are we in position to make donations?
  • yj: nice to donate but were are so new (may not be eligible to any government support) and COVID-19 has impacted us
  • dc: feels small amount from org early on is very important as solidarity response
  • bl, yj: in favour of raising pool of money from members and donating as hypha
  • dc: wants to explore clip at qm project since dc and uv (project team) both supportive
  • dc: continue at finance call tmr
• #todo: el fixes finance@ mail forwarder

OKR presentation

skipped

Action Items for Cultivator

• Migrate items with #todo:person to task board
• Publish meeting notes as open access, or publicly indexed with restricted access
• Reset meeting pad for next meeting
• bl: share transferwise personal credentials with yj
• el fix finance@ mail forwarder

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